Joseph Jude

This is a beautiful site "A Mental Health Resource By Madhappy"

What’s a super simple SaaS tool you’ve thought about building?

A three-step formula for teaching anything: 1) Explicitly state the audience’s flawed assumptions. 2) Tell a memorable story that illustrates your alternative perspective. 3) Explicitly state the takeaways from your story, and show how your way of thinking is more useful.

Want to become a better tweeter? Tweet every day Want to become a better comedian? Write a joke every day Want to become a better athlete? Workout every day Want to become a better musician? Practice every day Want to become better? Do it every day

A few of my quirky (and sometimes inconvenient to some) investing opinions. A thread. 👇👇👇

5 Principles I live by: 1. Honor God 2. Think long term 3. Invest in yourself 4. Work for freedom 5. Question everything

Ronald Reagan reacts to a balloon popping during a speech in West Berlin, 1987.

This dude is jammin' out with his own echo. Credit: YouTube / Armin Küpper

I just watched the Social Dilemma.... oof, okay. All other issues aside, I cannot stop thinking about this throwaway comment about bicycles by Tristan Harris:

Officially obsessed with Oxford’s “Very Short Introduction” series. The books are generally well-written and don’t have any fluff, which is everything I want from non-fiction. Plus, they’re short enough to read in 2-3 nights. Highly recommend.

@jjude Makes me feel so much better 🙏

🛠 People keep asking for the stack, it's: - @official_php 7 without framework - JS with @jquery without framework - normal CSS - @nginx on @ubuntu - 1x @linode VPS @ $400/mo - @stripe for payments - SQLite for db

The CLEAREST thinker on Twitter: @JamesClear (no pun intended) He's known for Atomic Habits, but his wisdom goes far beyond behavior change. I spent the last few weeks going through his best essays and interviews. Here are the 10 mental models that stuck with me. THREAD...

@jjude Congratulations Joseph. That’s quite something.

"We live in the age of infinite leverage, and the economic rewards for genuine intellectual curisotiy have never been higher." - @Naval • Read for free - • Purchase Paperback or Kindle -

I bought a thing. As penance, one like, one 2x2.

An underappreciated and underpracticed-in-tech part of the hiring loop: candidates should come away from it, regardless of the outcome, willing to talk you up to their friends/coworkers/etc.

"The greatest pleasure comes from rejecting constant pleasure." • Sex is better without porn. • Health is better without junk. • Food tastes better after fasting. • Conversations are better without social media. [via @KetoAurelius]

via the Napkin Math newsletter by @adam_keesling Contrary to what commentators incl Scott Galloway have us believe, COVID hasn't had much of an impact on traditional univs.

4/ I am a mathematically inclined software engineer and metrics are great for widgets. Metrics try to reduce people to widgets. That's why metrics don't work long term for people. Here is a great book that details the case against metrics for people:

2. Finds a statistical advantage. He bets on an opportunity that is growing in size based on data. His aha moment was a structured, organized, and considered hunch. It feels pragmatic AND exciting. (0:20)

Friend recently wrote, "Books don’t change lives; sentences do." Struck me as subtly profound and have been thinking about it ever since. One from his list: "Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries." What are your life-changing sentences?

Practice makes perfect.

Bezos had incredible business instincts. I've helped hundreds of founders build things—on the first watch of the following interview, we see a dorky founder yapping about his company. A closer inspection reveals 15 amazing founder skills. 👇

-A sickle and a hammer on the top of Lord Shiva's head, - Karl Marx on the side, - Rupees 910 as a water-fall. - Salvadore Dali's surreal touch all through the painting. I believe we owe a lot of Kamal Haasan, the whole bunch of audience of his era. ❤️

subscriptions: when your audience supports your brand membership: when your audience grows your brand

"Find an audience" <- Wrong. Can you imagine trying to 'find an audience' in real life? Walk around the streets until you find one? You build an audience by doing useful or interesting things. Start by finding a MARKET, and do useful things until an audience finds you.

Putting all the mini lectures in a Vimeo showcase.

A collection of mental models, frameworks, and principles you can use for marketing. 🧵

Grow Your Twitter Audience You don’t want to tweet your great content into a void. You want to build meaningful relationships & an audience! Sharing actionable tips on how to grow Thread 👇

1/ Optimize Your Profile - Choose a nice, smiley profile picture - Make it clear what you topics you write about in your bio - Don’t use hashtags in your bio, looks spammy - Be authentic & genuine - Use your pinned tweet as an extended version of your bio

Hmm, this is an application of my piece that I didn't think of:

Unpopular opinion: I don’t understand the point of lengthy newsletters.

My #NoCode Stack Landing Page: @carrd App Builder: @glideapps Database: @airtable @NotionHQ @googlesheets Newsletter: @mailerlite Analytics: @googleanalytics Automation: @integromat Chatbot: @tawkto Domains: @namecheap Email: @ImprovMx What's yours? Looking to expand mine!

@jjude I do not run like an elite but according to the video the watch fixation puts me in that category

இந்து மதம் மைனஸ் பார்ப்பனீயம் இதுவரை நான் டுவிட்டரில் பகிர்ந்த தகவல்களையும் காணொளிகளையும் ஒன்று சேர்த்து, இந்து மதத்தில் இருந்து பார்ப்பனீயம் ஏன் ஒழிக்கப்பட வேண்டும் என்ற தலைப்பில் தொகுத்திருக்கிறேன்.

Okay Twitter, let’s have some fun. Name somebody who is doing extremely interesting work, and deserves more recognition.

@jjude @DenseDiscovery Hi @jjude, Hylo is free to use (and we're not selling your data or advertising to you). We plan to always offer it to the world in the spirit of the #gift

The Twitter follower funnel This is what users do to decide if they follow or not👇 \ see valuable content / \ check name & @ / \ click on profile / \ read bio & link / \ pinned tweet / \ follow or no / Is your funnel optimized?

Hedonic Treadmill: The reason why more money or more things doesn’t make you happier.

@anujmagazine @douglaspneill Hi Anuj, I ordered from their website directly and they ship to India.

Here are my top Marketing Strategy tweets so far. (will update throughout the year) 1/ A step-by-step guide to segmentation for any brand in any category

No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote.

for people asking me which fund to invest? Index fund. Which life insurance to take? Pure Term Insurance where nothing comes back at the end of the term. Which bank account to have? Savings How many credit cards to have? two (2). There I have answered everything.

So you think Chandigarh is a planned city or Connaught Place is an example of great British planning. Well, meet Faisalabad, subcontinent’s 1st planned city. It came up in 1890. Lutyens is a township in front of the grandeur of Faisalabad.

There are four categories of responses to this type of article. Each of these correspond to one of the four classical theories of truth. Let's examine each of them in turn, as an exercise in critical thinking.

1/ Pick a platform “Fish where the fish are.” — Charlie Munger Since this wouldn’t be very helpful without context, I’ll use @visualizevalue as an example. I spent 6 months chumming the water. (visualizing ideas on twitter)

Does this settle that eternal startup funding question👇 Team v/s Product v/s Market ??

Broadly speaking, there're 2 types of engineers: 1) "Product-first" engineers. They're obsessed with using code to solve a user problem. Code is just a means. 2) "Code-first" engineers. They're obsessed with the abstractions, tools, and libraries in the code.

Why real schooling is better than online schooling? 👇🏽